Services

INVESTOR MATCHING PROGRAMME

• Do you have plan of Starting or Expanding your Business?
• Are you looking for Private Equity or a Loan to do so?
• Participate in Investor Matchmaking

SEED and BiD Network of the Netherlands operates an investor matching programme aimed at identifying, supporting and linking high potential Tanzanian entrepreneurs to investors and financiers.

1.0 Key Features

You will be given coaching and feedback by experts from SEED and Bid Network to improve your idea/plan. You will be visited, invited in meetings, forums and workshops organized by SEED to learn from each other and also for SEED Match maker to learn about your businesses, capacities and integrity. As well, you will be linked to other service providers (for specialized business or technical expertise). Over time, and with this networking and other support, you will manage to develop very good investment proposals/business plans. This will be evaluated and when approved for match-making, it will be sent to interested investors. BiD Network operates with a growing number of private equity investors based in Europe and other continents, who are interested in investing in developing countries, including Tanzania. Business plans and entrepreneurs who are assessed as ready for investment are matched with investors who have expressed readiness to invest in such kind of businesses. These investors consult with a Tanzanian targeted entrepreneur and if they come into agreement, an investor puts in equity or a combination of equity and a loan.

2.0 Who can participate

Since there are already many entrepreneurs who have gone through the business planning challenges, SEED and BiD Network believes that the best way of adding value to the entrepreneurs is to work with them to get financing. If you are an Entrepreneur and you are interested, please submit your business concept and business plan by visiting www.bidnetwork.org

3.0 Additional services

SEED is working with other Tanzanian and regional partners to provide the match-making, project development as well as investment services.

ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (EDP)

1.0 General

This is an integrated approach involving training, counseling and mentoring and project implementation support to facilitate emergence and sustainability of new entrepreneurs. The programme aims at helping the potential entrepreneurs to identify business opportunities, formulate business plans, strengthen entrepreneurial competencies and acquire skills in managing a small venture and successfully run a small business venture which would then grow. The programme involves about 150 hours of training followed by project implementation support through business counseling, technological and financial tie-ups, and mentoring.

2.0 Objectives

• To facilitate self-directed behavioral change in the identity of the participants leading to internalization of entrepreneurial competencies.
• To help the potential entrepreneurs identify business ideas, prepare business plans and acquire an overall understanding of managing a small enterprise.
• To counsel, mentor and support the participants in launching and running their enterprises
• Ultimately, to facilitate the emergence and growth of new enterprises and in the process, develop an "enterprising culture" in the community.

3.0 Key Programme features:

1. Every trainee entrepreneur can be helped to access needed seed capital from a Fund set up specifically to offer seed capital and/or from affiliated financial institution
2. Every trainee must twin up with a participating bank which/who would support the business after the mentoring period
3. Every trainee entrepreneur is matched with a successful business entrepreneur or CEO of a leading business entity who will mentors the trainee for the initial two years of project implementation in order to increase the success chances of the business.

EDP offers integrated support to potential entrepreneurs and provides following enterprise development tasks

• Identify and select committed entrepreneur
• Develop entrepreneurial competencies
• Link with viable business opportunities
• Help prepare business plans
• Equip with managerial understanding
• Organize finance, infrastructure and implementation support
• Match with successful entrepreneurs and CEOs for mentoring
• Follow-up and trouble shooting

4.0 Who can participate

EDP participants need to posses the following profile:

• A desire to set up their own small enterprise
• Working knowledge of English and Kiswahili, the languages used in training sessions
• Preferably between 25 and 40 years of age
• A threshold level of entrepreneurial competencies (soft skills) as evident from a formal selection process through a competence questionnaire administered to applicants
• Formal education (preferably at least up to form 6 level)

READY4FINANCE (R4F) TRAINING PROGRAMME

Support for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (SEED) has a license agreement to conduct in Tanzania, a Ready4Finance (R4F) Training programme, a property of BiD Network of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

1.0 Objective

R4F Programme comprehensive and professionally package training programme that aims to

• Build capacity of small and medium sized entrepreneurs to identify and select viable business ideas, prepare business plans, acquire an overall understanding of managing a small enterprise and effectively engage with investors or financiers and to be able start or grow their businesses.
• Prepares entrepreneurs to carry-out and engage in selecting suitable sources of finance for their businesses, engage in investment process and effectively work with financiers.

2.0 Target group

• The Programme target current and aspiring owner-managers of businesses who have decision making powers in a business and are intending to access financing to implement their business ideas.
• Working knowledge of English and Kiswahili is essential.
• Has a potential viable business idea.

3.0 Structure and Delivery Mode

• The programme is in two parts which are delivered separately and with the following modules:
  

  Part I: Business Planning & Management Skills Training

  Part II: Access To Financing And Investment Process - 3 Days

• Part II of the programme essentially requires an Entrepreneur with a complete business plan

BUSINESS PLANNING CHALLENGES

Since 2011, SEED has been organising specialised Business Plan Competition in collaboration with local and international stakeholders. SEED has huge capacity and experience in planning for, sourcing financing and management of business plan competitions and most participants receive awards that include training and coaching support to build bankable business plan and develop and manage viable businesses on ground. The winners are awarded business trip abroad to promote their business plan and get introduced to various potential investors and business partners and all best plans are matched with and/or linked to potential financiers.

FINANCIAL, INVESTMENT AND BUSINESS PLAN CLEARANCE SERVICES

SEED offers investment services to investors/financiers to verify and monitor businesses in which they will potentially invest. Services include but not limited to: -